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Experts say ballistics report shows Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot officer
The Hill ^ | 10/09/20 10:56 AM EDT | BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO

Posted on 10/09/2020 3:58:51 PM PDT by RandFan

Firearms experts say that a ballistics report from Kentucky State Police supports Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s (R) claim that Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend fired the shot that wounded a Louisville officer in the raid that resulted in Taylor’s death.

According to the Louisville Courier Journal, the report challenges previous analysis that Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was wounded by “friendly fire” from other officers involved in the March incident. Instead, experts are saying the 9 mm round that hit Mattingly came from the gun of Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.

Walker had previously admitted to firing one shot from his legally owned handgun.

Experts who spoke to the Courier Journal challenged the report’s finding that “due to limited markings of comparative value,” the 9 mm bullet that hit Mattingly’s thigh was neither “identified nor eliminated as having been fired” from Walker’s gun.

Charles Stephenson, a Kansas City-based firearms instructor and security consultant who is also a former FBI agent, told the Courier Journal in an email that the recovery of the bullet at the scene, as well as Walker’s admission, provide reasonable evidence to assume that Walker was the shooter.

Melissa Oberg, an Indianapolis firearms examiner, also confirmed this assertion to the local news outlet.

However, one of Walker’s attorneys, Steve Romines, maintains that Walker did not fire the shot that wounded Mattingly, telling the Courier Journal that it was not possible to determine the officer was shot with a 9 mm bullet “because no round was recovered from him” and that the wounds caused by a 9 mm and a 40 caliber round are too similar in size to distinguish.

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was killed after police shot her while acting on a no-knock warrant for her ex-boyfriend.

Internal probe shows police collected negative info about Breonna... Derek Chauvin allowed to establish residency outside of Minnesota... A Louisville grand jury decided last month to charge one officer, Brett Hankison, with three counts of wanton endangerment after bullets from his weapon went through Taylor’s wall into a neighbor’s apartment. None of the officers involved in the raid on Taylor’s apartment received any charges related to her death.

Cameron told news station WDRB that he did not present any murder charges to the grand jury, saying they were “not appropriate.”

He also argued that officers Myles Cosgrove and Mattingly were justified in their use of deadly force because of Walker’s shot that hit Mattingly in the upper thigh.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: breonna; breonnataylor; celinecastronuovo; danielcameron; jonathanmattingly; kennethwalker; kentucky; ky; louisville; thehill; thehillary; theshill
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1 posted on 10/09/2020 3:58:51 PM PDT by RandFan
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And it turns out Walker is an alleged drug dealer.


2 posted on 10/09/2020 4:02:00 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: RandFan

bookmark


3 posted on 10/09/2020 4:03:21 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: RandFan

Lot of evidence showing Breonna and Walker were drug dealers.


4 posted on 10/09/2020 4:05:35 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: RandFan
i thought he threw her under the wheels and said SHE shot at them
5 posted on 10/09/2020 4:08:40 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: RandFan

This article is so half-baked. Walker knew he had shot Mattingly. So much so he initially blamed it on St Bre!!


6 posted on 10/09/2020 4:10:31 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (I've got your Third Rail of Politics right here.)
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To: RandFan

And an LEO friend found the toxicology report for George Floyd.

2 to 3 milligrams is a fatal dose of fentanyl.

Floyd’s blood showed the amount of fentanyl in his blood was 11 milligrams!

He was complaining about difficulty breathing before he was escorted to the police cruiser.


7 posted on 10/09/2020 4:27:26 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: kaehurowing

Yep.... she was the money handler.


8 posted on 10/09/2020 4:31:54 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: N. Theknow

I’ve said from the beginning that Saint Floyd died of a drug overdose. The jury will set him free.


9 posted on 10/09/2020 4:33:49 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: RandFan

Who did not know that already?


10 posted on 10/09/2020 4:40:46 PM PDT by funfan
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To: RandFan
Yep

11 posted on 10/09/2020 4:42:02 PM PDT by moehoward (.)
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To: RandFan

ABC just showed the body cam footage.

They love and live to stoke the racial fires, don’t they.

Human filth. I hope they reap what they are sowing.


12 posted on 10/09/2020 5:12:28 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Once again the MSM is spreading the falsehood that the policemen had a “no knock warrant.” Testimony to the grand jury was that they had a “knock warrant,” they knocked on the door and a neighbor head them knocking and announcing that they were policemen with a warrant.


13 posted on 10/09/2020 5:13:16 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Yeah i thought this was wrong, it wasnt a no-knock, they knocked, and announced, and breached the door.


14 posted on 10/09/2020 5:52:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Chode

And I have read that he used her as a shield. That would explain how she received so many shots and he was unscathed.


15 posted on 10/09/2020 7:30:32 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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100%


16 posted on 10/09/2020 7:52:17 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

It’s time to put this stupid overhyped story to bed. Now


17 posted on 10/09/2020 9:52:19 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: RandFan

I want to know how she became a collendar


18 posted on 10/09/2020 11:02:11 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: RandFan

I thought he admitted that.


19 posted on 10/10/2020 6:46:38 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
And it turns out Walker is an alleged drug dealer.

Is he? That's the first time I've heard this. What's your source?
20 posted on 10/12/2020 5:27:03 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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